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to narcotize

to narcotize

1 9.5
To give someone a drug that makes them very sleepy or unconscious
  • verb
  • /ˈnɑrkəˌtaɪz/
  • NSFW
: narcotizar
  • After taking the medication, she felt narcotized and could barely keep her eyes open.

Examples

  • Hypothermia switched off the survival instinct with a narcotizing pall as effective as that produced by an alcoholic binge.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Shlohmo has chosen to play with tear-baths from the professionals of emoting melancholy, narcotizing sadness, and soul.

    Blog text (24)

  • Oh, in other words, you narcotize yourself with casual sex.

    Someone Like You... (2001)

  • The city was narcotized; it was that kind of summer day.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The persistent use of pharmaceuticals and television to narcotize women also discourages community building and solidarity with each other.

    Academic text (2004)

  • We've been narcotized by a consumption-based culture.

    Blog text (34)

  • They went on like this for some considerable time until they were dry and narcotized with ecstasy, and the sheets were a crumpled mess.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • In fact, relativism, even in its extreme formulations, rarely results in narcotizing all claims to knowledge but only in qualifying the range of applicability of such claims.

    Academic text (1995)

  • It didn't so much mark a new era of Hollywood as take the corporate Hollywood that was already in gear and kick it up another notch or two of visually narcotizing hucksterism.

    Blog text (7)

  • The doctor decided to narcotize the patient before the surgery to ensure a painless experience.

Synonyms

to drug
vsto narcotize
  • NSFW
139 7.2

To give someone a substance to make them sleep or act differently

uses specific sleep inducing medicines to make someone insensible rather than any medicine effect
to sedate
vsto narcotize
  • Specialized
81 6.8

To give medicine to make someone calm or sleepy

aims for deeper drowsiness or insensibility rather than simple calmness
to dope up
vsto narcotize
  • NSFW
13 9.4

Give someone drugs to change how they think or act

aims to produce drowsiness or full insensibility rather than only impairing performance
to anesthetize
vsto narcotize
  • Specialized
10 7.1

To give medicine so a person or animal cannot feel pain, often before surgery

is about causing drowsiness or insensibility using certain calming medicines rather than full unconsciousness
to tranquilize
vsto narcotize
  • Specialized
8 6.8

To make a person or animal calm by giving them medicine

focuses on creating drowsiness or insensibility rather than calmness alone
to anesthetise
vsto narcotize
  • Specialized
2 6.1

Give medicine so a person or animal does not feel pain during a medical procedure

is about causing drowsiness or insensibility using certain calming medicines rather than full unconsciousness
to opiate
vsto narcotize
  • NSFW
1 8.1

To make someone feel dull and less aware like after taking a strong drug

produces drowsiness or insensibility by giving specific sleep inducing medicines

Antonyms

to stimulate
185 3.7

Make a person or thing more active, alert and responsive

to awaken
66 1.8

To stop sleeping or make someone else wake up

How Sedating

to anesthetize
  • Specialized
10 7.1
to stupefy
2 7.9
to narcotize
  • NSFW
1 9.5
to sedate
  • Specialized
81 6.8
to dull
33 3.4

Surface Forms

narcotize infinitive
narcotized past
narcotized past participle
narcotizing present participle
narcotizes third person singular

Morphology

narcotize = narcotic (transparent) = narcot + ize

Derived by adding the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' to 'narcotic' (with minor phonological adjustment), so the meaning 'to administer or make drowsy with a narcotic' is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word narcotize comes from an old Greek root nark- meaning 'numb' or 'sleep', the same root you see in narcotic and narcolepsy. So to narcotize someone is to make them 'numb' or very drowsy with drugs.